Ahmed

Engineer at Sudowrite, guitarist

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@hendrixnroses Mother Mary, 0.5 stars.

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@philzona @jp_mikkers Does she like the colour yellow a bit too much?

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@wagslane @GremlinIndustry Lane I'll tell the nazis that this is because you hate the nuclear family and have a FURRY as a mascot!

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@coughdropsh Echoes, shine on you crazy diamond, you can consider the entire "The Wall" album as a song or a medley or something, Dogs, pretty much anything long by pink floyd. OH and Hurricane by Bob Dylan

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@naahuelrunca @RanmaWanderer @jakerattlesnk NO YOU'RE NOT! No one's McLovin, McLovin's never existed cause it's a MADE UP DUMB FUCKIN' FAIRY TALE NAME YOU FUCK

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forget the numbers let's just use the gorilla nft pixel values as identity like a 256x256 image has waaay more options than ipv8 and then everyone becomes a gorilla and you can use ai to describe the gorilla of the server you're sending stuff to if you don't remember it, it'll use diffusion to generate it and send the packets along. Brilliant.

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@meowkoteeq tbh it should all use mcp servers and gorilla nfts to prove identity

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S-stay calm okay let's not lose our heads. It's- it's it's a fine ID, it'll, it's gonna work, it's passable okay this isn't terrible. I mean it's up to you Fogell, this guy is either gonna think here's another kid with a fake id, or here's McLovin, 25 yearold, Hawaiian organ donor. 'Kay, so what's it gonna be?

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Linus Drops The Hard R (2023)

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@Real_shadmxtgp Spoon

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@GregMolnar i use yabai which is great, i switched from arch with i3 years ago, and it was a bit tough the first couple of months but now i feel like I'm back to my old levels of productivity

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I'd argue that it's unlikely to make any difference whatsoever. The efficiencies gained in work environments historically benefit those who own the means of production, not the workers...
As for everything else, we already know what correlates with fertility rates and how to improve them.

I've been researching the topic recently so here's a jumble of what i've found has moved the needle in the past

An interesting tidbit is economist Richard Easterlin's hypothesis that relative income, instead of absolute income is what affects fertility rates. Specifically how well-off they are relative to what they expected in childhood and young adulthood. A reexamination of the study from 2015 that shows how the effect could account for around 12% of the U.S. baby boom. (Hill, 2015)

Bauernschuster et al., 2016, shows that a very important factor is childcare coverage. According to the study, which was done after German policy reforms, a 10 percentage point increase in childcare coverage correlated with increased birth rates by around 2.8%

Another one, this time done across 28 OECD nations, showed that high unemployment, unstable contracts, and especially forms of precarious employment depressed fertility rates. They also showed that economic stability and maternity leave increase fertility rates. (Adserà, 2004)

Finally, one of the most important factors seems to be housing costs! Obviously. This one looked at women between the ages of 20 and 44 in a couple dozen metropolitan areas in the US. They found that housing prices had a higher correlation with birth rates than even unemployment, showing that a 10% increase in housing prices lead to a 1% decrease in birth rates amongst non-homeowners, while having the opposite effect for people that owned property.

Point is that the subject of fertility rates is very interesting, but it's not a problem that any particular technology can solve, and one that requires systemic change.

It is my opinion that not only will AI not increase fertility rates, leading to a golden era of parenthood, but that its employment in the aim of displacing workers will exacerbate the problem. To be clear, I'm not "anti-ai" but it sure isn't magic.

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but we didn't know it was a visa card before though, right? And based on his account we can deduce where he's from and which banks he's likely to use with his fancy visa card so that makes the odds of guessing better! Plus, card numbers are constrained by checksums, so knowing the first digit is a 4 gives you information about the possible combinations of the rest of them, instead of just the first digit, cause they're not independent!

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not processing your transaction, that's what really makes them evil

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well it's not 10^15 is it now, because very few numbers are valid. You can also make educated guesses about which bank they could possibly be using based on where they're from so I think in the end you could significantly narrow down the possibilities. Either way just the card numbers are pretty much useless

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@vxdb If atlassian made arc a $60 one-time purchase see that'd be amazing and the whole world would rejoice

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hi prompt injection